Poor Things ????? Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Kathryn Hunter, Christopher Abbott, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Margaret Qualley. 18 cert, gen release, 141 min Stunning psycho-sexual feminist fantasy, adapted from an Alasdair Gray novel, featuring Emma Stone as a women reanimated by Willem Dafoe’s eccentric Victorian scientist. A dizzying feast of cinematic excess, but there is also intellectual traction and psychological grit. This is an essay on the politics of control expressed in the language of avant-garde circus. Though we are never more than seconds away from a good joke and though...